Description
- School: enchantment / charm (mind-affecting)
- Classes: arcanist 6, cleric 6, mesmerist 6, occultist 4, oracle 6, sorcerer 6, warpriest 6, witch 6, wizard 6
- Casting Time: 10 minutes
- Range: 0 ft
- Effect: one symbol
- Duration: see text
- Save: Will negates
- Components: V, S, M (mercury and phosphorus, plus powdered diamond and opal worth a total of 5,000 gp)
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
This spell functions like symbol of death, except that all creatures within the radius of a symbol of persuasion instead become charmed by the caster (as the charm monster spell) for 1 hour per caster level.
Unlike symbol of death, symbol of persuasion has no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of persuasion simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level.
Note: Magic traps such as symbol of persuasion are hard to detect and disable. A rogue (only) can use the Perception skill to find a symbol of persuasion and Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 31 for symbol of persuasion.